English Explanatory Dictionary

ringmail

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A type of personal armour constructed as series of metallic rings sewn to a fabric or leather foundation, assumed by the Victorians to have been used in the Middle Ages, but now generally thought not to have existed historically.

Word forms

ringmail ringmails ring mail

Etymology

From ring + mail.

Synonyms

ring armour ring armor
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